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Maintained by the Office of the Chief Actuary of the U.S. Social Security Administration, the site lists the most popular names given to babies in the U.S. as actually registered with the SSA. That's reasonably cool, but what's really neat is you can go back to any year (as far back as 1880) and see what the popular names were that year. In 1880, the top names were John and Mary -- neither of which made the Top 10 for the most recently ended year, 2006. You can also enter a name and see how popular it has been over time. From This is True for 2 September 2007 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Laura Wattenberg Amazon Price: $9.35 Customer Review: We are having a little girl in October and bought this book before we went away on vacation to help us select a name. Although this book does not have a sea of names like many of the 100,000+ name books out there, there is a wide-range of names to c...  by Bruce Lansky Amazon Price: $9.32 Customer Review: Bought this book hoping to find something interesting- instead I spent so much time wading through hindi and islamic names I finally gave up on finding anything appropriate. The crowning moment was finding "Jihad" as a suggested name- oh dear. On top...  by Lesley Bolton Amazon Price: $10.39 Customer Review: Although there are quite a lot of names to go through, most are not useable. This book however did provide a great laugh and could be a good reference of what NOT to name your child. True you can find some ideas, but if you ever wondered why a lot of...  by Gilbert A. Jarvis, Thérèse M. Bonin, Diane W. Birckbichler, Anne Lair Amazon Price: $124.43 Customer Review: I had to use this book for French 101 in college. I don't recommend it, if you're not being forced to purchase it. The culture sections do contain a lot of helpful and interesting information about France and the other French-speaking countries, but ...  by Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Redmond Satran Amazon Price: $5.18 Customer Review: I bought "Beyond Jennifer and Jason..." years ago, and was pleased to see a more current version out, now that I'm expecting again and stuck in the name department. But having already read the older version, Beyond Ava and Aiden was a disappointment... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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